BIO: George H. Miller, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                              CHAPTER LIX.

                         UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP.

569  UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP.

  GEORGE H. MILLER, retired, Shepherdstown, one of the best known 
citizens of this township, is the son of Adam Miller, who came to this 
county, as early as 1805, being then a mere boy; was employed in 
various pursuits and all the time accumulating money.  Later in life he 
went to Dauphin County, Penn., and there learned the shoe-maker's 
trade, after which he returned to Upper Allen Township, this county, 
and opened a shop on the Samuel Mohler farm and prospered financially.  
March 14, 1817, he was married to Sophia, daughter of Henry Hann, of 
York County, Penn., and housekeeping was commenced on the Mohler farm, 
and there was born Ann, now the wife of John Graybill, of Indiana.  In 
1818 Adam Miller moved to the Eberly farm, near Shepherdstown, where he 
conducted business for thirty-six years, and there were born and reared 
following named children:  George H., Catharine, Christiana, Sarah, 
Jacob, Eliza and Mary E.  He purchased another farm later, and moved on 
it about 1854, but afterward sold it and went to live with his son, 
George, at whose home he and his faithful wife spent the remainder of 
their days.  George H. Miller was born July 22, 1819; was married, 
September 24, 1843, to Susannah, daughter of Nicholas Urich, one of the 
pioneers of the Cumberland Valley.  In 1844 George Miller and his young 
wife commenced on the farm, where for six years their life was one of 
domestic peace and prosperity, and on this farm their children, George 
W., Susan E. and Adam U., were born.  The death of Mrs. Miller, in 
1849, was the first sorrow that came to this household.  Mr. Miller 
then moved, and September 9, 1851, married Sarah Ann Beelman, who bore 
him the following children:  Laura E., Matilda C., Sarah H., Elmer E. 
and Ida C.  George W., Mr. Miller's son, enlisted in the Two Hundred 
and Second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served during 
the late war of the Rebellion as first sergeant; his death occurred in 
February, 1870.  Our subject remained on the farm until 1884, when he 
removed to Shepherdstown, which he will probably make his home the 
balance of his life.  He has ever been a man on whom the people could 
look with confidence.  He has reared a family which do him honor, and 
has given his children liberal educational advantages, and George and 
Laura have been teachers.  Politically Mr. Miller has always been a 
Democrat, and has held many official positions of trust in the 
township, and of him it may be said that he is a fit representative of 
that intrinsic worth which distinguished the families of a century ago.